A review by bdfarber13
The Beautiful: Collected Poems by Michelle Tea

3.0

Michelle Tea writes conversational poetry that feels very familiar, like you're talking with a friend about life, love, and ideas, and then those moments when it turns from mundane caring words to crystallized meanings, where words are clever and clear and convey in beautiful ways what you've tried to say so many times before. Some of them are much better than others, but I liked moving through this book piecemeal, considering a couple poems at a time.

Some favorites:
If You Leave a Woman Flowers, You'll Probably Scare Her Away
For Zanne For Zanne For Zanne
Go Kiss Go
We are Girls
Lovesad
Percentages<3
What I Mean by American